Patching files with spaces in the name

[Sam Lawrance]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:40 -0300, Antonio Carlos Venancio Junior wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> Alex Varju wrote:
> > Antonio Carlos Venancio Junior wrote:
> >  >> Alex Varju wrote:
> > 
> >>> While I'm sure this question must have come up in the past, I can't 
> >>> find anything in the archives.  Is there any good method for patching 
> >>> source files with spaces in the name?
> >>>
> >>> I'm looking at creating an eclipse-devel port for Eclipse 3.1m5a.  
> >>> I've already got something working now that allows me to build on 
> >>> AMD64 (see the freebsd-java archives if you are interested).  Now I'm 
> >>> trying to clean up my work, and one of the problems I've encountered 
> >>> is that Eclipse uses spaces in many of their paths.  If I take a diff 
> >>> for changes I've made to files within one of these directories, the 
> >>> patch won't apply again afterwards.
> >>>
> >>> Are there any ports that deal with similar problems in an elegant 
> >>> manner?
> > 
> >  >
> >  >     do you have some examples?
> > 
> > Hi Antonio,
> > 
> > Yes, I do have an example.  I've attached a diff from the port I have in 
> > progress.  The theory is that it should update the file build.sh in the 
> > directory "plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library". 
> > Unfortunately, because of the spaces in "Eclipse SWT PI", the patch does 
> > not work.
> > 
> > Alex.
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > --- plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library/build.sh.orig	Fri Apr  1 13:56:58 2005
> > +++ plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library/build.sh	Thu Apr  7 21:28:24 2005
> 
> 	try this two options:
> 
> plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse\ SWT\ PI/gtk/library/build.sh
> "plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library/build.sh"
> 
> 	Got it?! ;)

That won't work, patch doesn't know anything about quoting with respect
to filenames. All that will do is give you a file named like

plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse\
"plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse